Still picture projector



April 25, 1949- s. MARCUS ETAL 1 2,468,565

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BY W ATTORNEY April 26, 1949. s. MARCUS ErAL 2,468,565

STILL PICTURE PROJECTOR 4 sheets-sheet 2 Filed Feb. 19, 1946 Ill INVENTORS BY WW ATTORNEY April 26, 1949. s R S ETAL 2,468,565

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8) MW ATTORNEY April 26, 1949. s. MARCUS EI'AL STILL PICTURE PROJECTOR 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 Filed Feb. 19, 1946 INVENTORS Samuel. Mmrcus Evnu J: flmon ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 26, 1949 STILL PICTURE PROJECTOR Samuel Marcus, New York, and Evan .1. Anton, Sunnyside, N. Y.

Application February 19, 1946, Serial No. 648,697

1 Claim.

The present invention relates to a projector more particularly to a home projector adapted to project stills.

The object of the present invention is to provide a projector, which is inexpensive to manufacture, simple and durable in structure, and may be assembled and dismantled with great ease and celerity.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a projector wherein substantially all the major apparatus is removably fixed to a base plate.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a projector with sufiicient ventilation therein to keep it cool at all times.

Other objects and advantages of the present invention will be brought out in the following specification. 7

Reference will be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the specification in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which,

Fig. l is a longitudinal section of the projector;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view partly in section, of the base plate;

Figs. 3, 4 and 5 are detailed views of the elevator mechanism, and the supporting structure for the condensers;

Fig. 6 is a front view of the slide carrier in a neutral position;

Fig. 7 is a plan View of the slide carrier partly in section;

Fig. 8 is a cross section in the line 8-8 of Fig.6;

Fig. 9 is an enlarged detail view of the slide carrier housing, showing how it is attached to the projector; and

Fig. 10 is a fragmentary detail showing the slide carrier mounted in the projector.

Referring to the drawings, wherein I have shown by way of illustration merely, a projector comprising a base plate H), which is fixed to a housing I l, by means of screws l2.

The base plate H], supports a lamp housing l3, a support It for a pair of condensers, and an elevating mechanism It.

The lamp housing l3, comprises a cylindrical tube E6, which is fixed to the base plate H] by a bracket H, which in turn is secured to the base plate Ill, by screws [8.

The cylindrical tube It extends upwardly into an opening [9, in the housing I I A cover plate having louvres 2i therein, completely covers the opening I9 in the housing ll,

and has secured thereto and depending therefrom a chimney 22, which surrounds the lamp socket and tube 23.

The chimney 22 is secured to the cover in any suitable manner, such as, by a spot welded flange 24.

The tube or lamp 23 which is preferably a double contact bulb, candelabra type, is held in a socket 25, which is secured to a flange 26, and this flange in turn is secured to the cylindrical tube it by an upturned flange 27.

The lamp socket 25 is hollow and adapted to receive a lead-in cord 28, which is threaded through an opening 29 in the rear of the housing l i, and thence, through a channel 3D in the base plate ill, and into the inside of the socket 25 to connect with the tube 23. Supported on the lamp housing cylinder 16 by screws 32 and a nut 32 is an adjustable reflector 34.

The chimney 22 has secured thereto a plate 34 spot welded tangentially thereon which carries, preferably, a meniscus lense 35, which is held in position on the plate 34 by claws 3t, punched out of the plate 34 adjacent the edge of the opening 31 on the plate 34.

It will be noticed by referring to Figs. 1 and 2, that when the cover plate 28 supporting the chimney 22 is lowered down through the opening I!) in the housing l i, to cover the tube 23, the plate 34 will slide against a pair of angular brackets 38, secured to the cylinder it, which serves to properly position the chimney 22 around the tube 23, and also properly position the meniscus lense 35 in respect to the tube 23.

There is an opening 39 in the cylinder IE to permit the free passage of light from tube 23 therethrough, for projecting through a pair of preferably plano-convex condensers 4E) and 4|, which are removably mounted in the support Hi.

The support l4 comprises a cover i2 integral with a pair of legs 43 and 443, which are secured to the base plate 16 by rivets 45. The legs 43 and 44 have cut-out portions 45 to provide upstanding legs 41.

At the lower part of the condensers 4i? and 4| there is a bridge piece 48, riding between the legs 43 and 44.

The bridge piece it, has both ends turned downwardly to form arms 49, which slide against arms 4? on the legs 43 and M. Surrounding the arms 4'! and 49, are springs 52 which normally hold the peripheral edges of the condensers 40 and 4| into slots in the cover 42, and also into the slots 5| in the bridge piece 48.

This structure firmly holds the condensers 40 carries the condensers upwardly until the upper peripheral edges of the condensers 90 and 4| en-' ter the slots in the cover plate 42.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 3, there is shown an elevating device l5 for raising and lowering'the front portion of the projector to properly position the picture on the screen, consisting of a finger Wheel 53, which is serrated around the peripheral edge and fixedly secured to an upstanding stub shaft 54, which in turn carries-a steep" pitched helical screw 55, fixedly secured to the stub shaft 59 and rotating within a cross bar 56. Q l

The cross bar 56 is rigidly secured to a pair of arms 57 and 58, which are guided through the base plate I0, and have a bridge base plate 59 attached to the ends thereof adapted to rest upon a table not shown. When the finger wheel 53 is rotated it rotates the-screw and causes the cross piece 56 to ride up and down upon the screw 55 to raise andlovver'the'jrontoi the projector. Y v ",The stub shaft 54 is rotatably mounted in the base plate H1. The housing H .carriesthe con: ventional focusing barrel 69, carrying the cus-- tomary pair of objective lenses therein for properly focusing the picture on the screen. The focusing barrel 60 has a spiral channel 6| therein, engaging With a ball detent 62 for adjusting the barrel inwardly and outwardly. The ball62 has the usual spring 63 to urge the ball in the spiral channel 5|. The housing I I has a cross cut slot 64 therein, between the focusing barrel 60 and the condenser 40, for the reception of a slide carrier 65. I ,The slide carrier 65 rests on the bottom [of slot 64, as shown at B6 in Figs. 1 and 9. The slide carrier has a ventilator housing 61 which is fixed to the projector by a spring' 68 at the bottom thereof, and 2. lug 69 at the top thereof. I v The details and operation of the slide carrier 65, arebrought out in our application Ser. No. $18,698 filed Feb. 19, 1 946 concurrently I with the present application, and therefore not fully described here. It will be seen by referring to Figs. 1 and 2, that the cool currents of air will pass through the louvres 10 in the bottom of the base plate 10 and thence upwardly through the opening 39 in the cylinder l6, and out through the louvres 21 in the cover 20, to remove the currents of hot air caused by the tube 23. V

The currents of cool air also pass through the openings H in the base plate II] at the bottom of cylinder l6, up through cylinder [6 and out through louvres 2| in the cover 20, which'keeps ml i w a u-em-ri wwo (95731);2: .4399 en. mi.

the projector sufficiently cool at all times while in operation.

Many modifications may be made from the present invention without departing from the spirit thereof.

We claim:

A projector for the projection of stills comprising a cover, a base plate, a cylindrical lamp housing having a flange adjacent the bottom thereof, said fiange being secured to said base plate, said cylindrical lamp housing having a bottom thereon with a centrally located aperture with an inwardly projecting wall, a tubular lamp socket secured in said centrally located aperture and coaxially aligned with a transverse wire enclosing, channel in said base plate, a transverse plate secured inside of said cylindrical lamp house for supporting a cylindrical light shield surrounding said lamp socket, a lens secured to said transverse plate adjacent an aperture therein, an inverted U-shap'ed "condenser stand having the legs thereof secured to said base plate, said stand having a plurality of slots in the top thereof to accommodate tangential portions of a pair of "condensers, a movable U- shaped bridge plate 'havinga plurality of slots therein in alignment with said slots in said U- shaped stand to accommodate the tangential portions adjacent the bottom of the condensers, a coil-spring surrounding each of said legs on said stand and said bridge plate for facilitating the insertion andremoval of said condensers, a focusing barrel in alignment with said condensers having a spiral groove therein for the reception of a ball mounted in said projector cover, a transverse slot in said cover between the condensers" and focusing barrel for the reception of a slide carrier, and an elevating device adjacent thefront of said projector having a fast spiral screw fixed to a hand wheel inside of said projector cover and projecting therethrough, a transverse plate engaging'said fast screw, a transverse foot plate having a vertical arm 'at each end thereof projecting upwardly thru said base plateand connected to said trans verse plate engagingsaid fast screw.

SAMUEL MARCUS? EVAN JQTANTON."

REFERENCES CITED' The followingreferences are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED, STATES PATENTS 2,292,956 Osterberg et al; Aug. 11, 1942 

